Bug#655683: libav-tools: should provide ff* compatibility symlinks

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-01-13 at 03:43pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Fr, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:33:27 (CET), Sven Joachim wrote:
> 
> > Package: libav-tools
> > Version: 4:0.8~beta2-1
> >
> > Renaming the programs from ff* to av* is breaking reverse 
> > dependencies of ffmpeg that are using these binaries.  At least 
> > "youtube-dl --extract-audio" is affected by this because it looks 
> > for ffprobe and fails. :-(
> >
> > Please check ffmpeg's reverse dependencies for invocations of 
> > ffprobe, ffplay etc. and file bugs against them.  In the meantime, 
> > providing compatibility symlinks is probably a good idea, at least 
> > if the commandline options of the programs are compatible.
> 
> Oh, I wasn't aware that we have frontends that directly use ffserver 
> and ffplay. I was only aware of front-ends for /usr/bin/ffmpeg, which 
> is still provided.

I suspect (but have not tested) that libmlt will be affected by the 
strictness of the ffmpeg wrapper: it invokes ffmpeg binary rather than 
linking against libav* libraries, and could very likely be using 
ill-ordered options and possibly also the deprecated -ab option.


Cool that libav* now supports speex!


 - Jonas

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